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emulator developer folks: is there an off-the-shelf software package suitable for an app compatibility database. I don't want to use a wiki and I don't want to use an issue tracker.
@0xabad1dea @hikari Today (that is 2023-08-30) I finally got rid of a Windows XP machine at a client that was running some EDI software written in a mishmash of batch files, Visual FoxPro, Delphi (and as I found out) Access. (the software is sadly still running, except it's now on a Windows 10 machine)
@jernej__s @0xabad1dea they used THREE different “easily build a GUI around your database” packages?!
@hikari @0xabad1dea Yup.
@hikari @0xabad1dea Oh, and the software's still in use, only now it's running on a Win10 machine.
@hikari @0xabad1dea Also, the most widely used business banking software's probably worse – it's got components written in Visual C 6, Visual C 2010, VB6, QT 3, and uses either Access or IBM DB2…